Support : Publications : Chronolog Archives : April 2001

In the Spotlight
SPORTDiscus Highlights Health and Wellness for the Office and at Home

If you have always thought of SPORTDiscus as a database for the sports-minded only, you are in for a pleasant surprise. Dialog File 48 and DataStar file SPOR provide articles related to stress, mental training, fitness, goal setting, visualization, coaching, training, and nutrition, all familiar terms in the business environment. The subjects listed are not restricted to the world of sport. On the contrary, all of these areas are being used as research benchmarks in corporate wellness and healthy lifestyles.

This bibliographic database with over 500,000 references is easily searchable; and all of the references from book chapters, journals, and periodicals are pre-qualified by the Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC) indexing advisory board. Each reference is given a research level: B = Basic; I = Intermediate; and A = Advanced. With indexing partners from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Australia, Sweden, China and Israel to name a few, this database of fitness, medicine, and training is truly a global resource.

In addition, the fulltext of over 75% of the SPORTDiscus references is available from Dialog through DialOrder®.

Content Coverage

SPORTDiscus provides full coverage of many topics, such as psychology and mental training, employee fitness programs, and nutrition and ergogenic aids. These complement information obtained from other databases on Dialog and DataStar, such as MEDLINE®, ERIC, PsychINFO®, EMBASE®, and ABI/INFORM®. The following table shows the number of records in SPORTDiscus on these subjects.

                               Number of Records	
Psychology/Mental Training        8,436		   
Employee Fitness Programs         1,459 	   
Nutrition and Ergogenic Aids     12,511

Whether you are directing a business information resource center, working as a human resources professional, or administering an employee assistance program, the breadth of references will offer hubs of knowledge that can be used in research.

Thesaurus Available

Finally, users of SPORTDiscus will have the benefit of the SIRCThesaurus when using the database. Its hierarchical and extensive cross-reference structure, with an estimated 12,000 descriptors, has made this thesaurus the industry standard used by all of our indexing partners around the world.

For more information about SPORTDiscus, please refer to the Bluesheet for Dialog File 48 (http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets) or the Datasheet for DataStar, File SPOR.

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